Door-check.



PATBNTBD AUG. '18, 1903. -J. F. SCOTT.

DOOR CHECK.

APPLIGATION FILED Nov. 21. 1902.

N0 MODEL.

5% J sa UNITn STATES Patented August 18, 1903.

JOHN F. SCOTT, OF EVANSVILLE, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO ST. LOUIS CAR COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION.

DOOR-CHECK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 76,639, dated. August 18, 1903.

Application iilecl November 21l 1902. Serial No. 132.211. (No model.) i

T0 (LZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN F. SCOTT, a citizen of the United States, residing in Evansville, in the county of Vanderburg and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Door Checks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this speciication.

My invention relates to a catch for receiving and holding the handles of vestibule-car doors when they are swung into open condition.

The invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Figure I is a view illustrating the platform of a vestibule-car and showing in cross-section a door equipped with my catch. Fig. II is a face view of the catch with the door-handle shown in engagement therewith. Fig. III is a view, partly in horizontal section and partly inplan, of my catch and a door-handle arranged in engagement therewith. Fig. IV is a view showing modication of the finger of the catch.

A designates the platform of a vestibulecar, and B and C are the sections of a door such as used to close the passage-way between said platform and the steps associated therewith.

1 designates a handle-housing mounted in the section C of the door, and 2 is the doorhandle, oscillatively mounted in said housing.

3 designates a dish-shaped plate attached to the door-section B and set thereinto so as to occupy a position inV alinement with the handle-housing I and into which the handle is adapted to enter when the sections are closed together, as illustrated in Figs. I and III.

4. designates a finger carried by the dished plate 3 and extending outwardly from the base of the recess in said plate in a position to be engaged by an arm of the handle 2 when the doorsections B and C are brought together. vThe fingere is of hook form, as seen most clearly in Fig. III, and its point 5 is curved rearwardly at 6 to receive an arm of the handle y2 and provide for the riding of the handle along the end face of the iingenhook when the door-sections are brought together. The handle-arm after passing the finger-hook swings into the position seen in Figs. II and III in the rear of the hook and is held securely against accidental disengagement.

The finger 4 may be formed integral with the dished plate 3, as seen in Figs. II and III, or it may be in the form shown in Fig. IV, in which itis indicated as 4. and is shown riveted to the plate.

Iclaim as my inventionl. A catch for door-handles of the character named comprising a dished plate, and a hooked finger carried thereby adapted to receive the engagement of a door-handle, substantially as set forth.

2. A catch for door-handles of the character named, comprising a dished plate, a iinger carried by said plate, and a hook carried by said finger and having a curved outer face, substantially as set forth.

JOHN F. SCOTT.

In presence of E. S. KNIGHT, M. P. SMITH. 

